ArticleScientific reports2018
Ultrasonography for lymph nodes metastasis identification in bitches with mammary neoplasms.
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- Use of New Ultrasonography Methods for Detecting Neoplasms in Dogs and Cats: A Review.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Evaluation of ARFI elastography for detecting active mastitis in sheep with previous fibrous lesions: a study of mammary parenchyma and supramammary lymph nodes.Animal reproduction · 2024Article
- Ultrasonography and Sonoelastography Characteristics of Benign vs. Malignant Mesenteric Lymph Nodes in Cats: An Update.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- The Importance of Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Mammary Tumors in Bitches.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Modern Imaging Techniques in the Study and Disease Diagnosis of the Mammary Glands of Animals.Veterinary sciences · 2023Review
- Accuracy of B-mode ultrasound and ARFI elastography in predicting malignancy of canine splenic lesions.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Ultrasonographic Algorithm for the Assessment of Sentinel Lymph Nodes That Drain the Mammary Carcinomas in Female Dogs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2020Article
- Usefulness of 2-D shear wave elastography for the diagnosis of inguinal lymph node metastasis of malignant melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma.The Journal of dermatology · 2020Article
- Two-Dimensional Shear Wave Elastography of Normal Soft Tissue Organs in Adult Beagle Dogs; Interobserver Agreement and Sources of Variability.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2020Article
- Sonography and sonoelastography in the detection of malignancy in superficial lymph nodes of dogs.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2019Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the diagnostic accuracy of B-mode, Doppler ultrasonography and Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) elastography in the identification of axillary and inguinal lymph nodes metastasis in bitches with mammary neoplasms. The axillary (n = 96) and inguinal (n = 100) lymph nodes of 100 bitches were evaluated using B-Mode, Colour Doppler and ARFI-elastography. After this evaluation, mastectomy and lymph nodes excision were performed and these structures were histologically classified as free, reactive or metastatic. Ultrasonographic parameters were compared by Chi-Square or ANOVA tests and if they are significant, discriminative power analysis according to histopathological classification was performed (ROC analysis). The ARFI-elastography shear wave velocity (SWV) enabled metastasis identification in inguinal (sensitivity 95% specificity 87%) and axillary lymph nodes (sensitivity 100% specificity 94%). While B-Mode ultrasound Short/Long axis ratio evaluation of inguinal and axillary lymph nodes only resulted in a sensitivity around of 71% and specificity of 55%. In conclusion, B-Mode ultrasonography may contribute to diagnosis of metastasis in axillary and inguinal lymph nodes of bitches affected by mammary neoplasm with limited accuracy, while SWV evaluation proved to be an excellent diagnosis tool, which allows differentiation between free, reactive and tumour metastatic lymph nodes.
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